by Mara Ferreri, Queen Mary, University of London On 27 February 2012, London’s Occupy LSX was evicted, as was the School of Ideas. At the time of writing, only the protest camp at Finsbury Square...
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Precarity and housing politics in austerity London, UK
OWS Screenprinting: Markets, Commons and Questions, Part II
by Jesse Goldstein, City University of New York I began part one of this essay with a trip to the Hunter College Women’s Day Fair, where the OWS Screenprinters Coop was set up for the day. ...
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Geographies of a debtors’ strike
by Sara Nelson, University of Minnesota The question of how to build an effective movement amongst indebted students and homeowners has been central to ongoing campaigns that have grown out of...
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Radical/critical pedagogy
by Andy Davies, University of Liverpool Antipode’s editorial team recently posted about comments made by Clive Barnett, who was speaking about an article by James Ferguson in the journal’s 40th...
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Jan Satyagraha: Walking for land rights in India
by Naomi Millner, University of Bristol A visitor to Bristol recently turned my attention to a mass demonstration for agrarian reform he has been involved in publicising. Jan Satyagraha...
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OWS Screenprinting: Markets, Commons, and Questions, Part I
by Jesse Goldstein, City University of New York This past week, the OWS Screenprinters Cooperative had a table set up at Hunter College’s Women’s Day Fair, screenprinting and selling tee-shirts,...
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Kony 2012: “The rules have changed”
by David Meek, University of Georgia On 5 March 2012, the controversial NGO Invisible Children released the latest in their series of mini-documentaries about the plight of child soldiers in Uganda....
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Can we get there from here? Teleological red-lining and avoiding the ghetto
by Jim Thatcher, Clark University If nothing else, the past year removed any doubt as to mobile technology’s role as a potent force for social change. From the streets of Cairo to Zuccotti Park,...
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‘Anonymous’ and the question of authenticity
by David Meek, University of Georgia In this post I’d like to explore another case of online activism and several of the questions it brings up about what constitutes ‘authentic’ political...
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“Labor law is a shield, but direct action is a sword…”
by Nathan Clough, University of Minnesota Duluth So said an Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) organizer in response to a question I asked about the solidarity unionism model employed by the...
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